One project in this area comes from Mary Immaculate Secondary School in Lisdoonvarna and focuses on ‘the geography of the voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest’.

Another from Cork’s Kinsale Community School looks to access the effects on domestic life due to the incoming water charges.

Other projects include a study of the physics of conkering, and what cattle has the lowest carbon “hoofprint”.

One, called NetSafe, comes from a student featured in TheJournal.ie‘s 20 Under 20. Caolan Fleming, at one point the youngest app developer in Europe, has developed a programme to monitor a child’s online activity, sending all information to their parents.